Pendant

Arts of the Americas

1900–17

Jessie M. Preston (American, 1873–1962)
Chicago

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Jessie M. Preston
Title: Pendant
Place: Chicago (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1900–1917
Medium: Silver and amethyst
Dimensions: 61.5 × 5 cm (24 1/4 × 2 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Neville and John Bryan; through prior acquisition of various donors
Reference Number: 2006.31

Jeanne Schinto, “The 20th–Century Sale at Skinner: Back to the Future,” Maine Antique DIgest, March, 2006, p. 37A (ill.).
Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2005–2006), p. 22.
Carlieanne Kaufman Erickson, “A Craft of Their Own: Women and Metalworking in the American Crafts Movement in Boston and Chicago” (M.A. thesis, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Smithsonian Institution; and Parsons The New School for Design, 2012), pp. 44-5, fig. 3.40.

With Skinner Auctioneers, Boston, 20th Century Decorative Arts, December 10, 2005, lot 190; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2006.

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